Seasonal correlation of sporadic schizophrenia to Ixodes ticks and Lyme borreliosis |
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Authors: | Fritzsche Markus |
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Affiliation: | (1) Clinic for Internal Medicine, Soodstrasse 13, 8134 Adliswil, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Background Being born in winter and spring is considered one of the most robust epidemiological risk factors for schizophrenia. The aetiology and exact timing of this birth excess, however, has remained elusive so far. Since during phylogeny, Borrelia DNA has led to multiple germ-line mutations within the CB1 candidate gene for schizophrenia, a meta analysis has been performed of all papers on schizophrenic birth excesses with no less than 3000 cases each. All published numerical data were then plotted against the seasonal distributions of Ixodes ticks worldwide. |
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